Sentence examples for lesser pictures from inspiring English sources

And when she got a part worthy of her gifts, she had the wit to put the lab work done in her lesser pictures to good use.

Major works — like Jan van Goyen's "The Valkhof at Nijmegen" dated 1646, or a Virgin and Child signed in 1534 by Lucas Cranach the Elder with the winged serpent device — are lined up amidst lesser pictures.

Such is the fate of the great character actors, who, role after role, are called on to add shading — a line reading, a swaggering gait, a jaw that leads, quivers, retreats — to lesser pictures.

The Ephraim-Palais has some of the lesser-known pictures she shot when she returned briefly to visit postwar Berlin in 1957 and 1962, as a kind of prodigal daughter, estranged but open-eyed.

But it's the lesser-known pictures that really stand out, notably a pair of surreal self-portraits, in which Iturbide holds birds over her eyes, and still-lifes of Frida Kahlo's recently rediscovered prosthetic leg and back brace — relics that the artist treats with the reverent reserve of a true believer.

The day after his death, I screened One Hour Photo, one of his lesser-known pictures, but one that puts him out there with stunning malevolence.

When lesser artists like Jules Chéret and Jean Bérard picture the cafes and music halls, the scenes and characters are glamorized.

For most visitors, the show at the Bruce will be the first opportunity to become acquainted with the extent of Mr. Ferré's wonderful collection, which includes some powerful pictures by lesser-known artists.

He'd paint a vague picture of lesser nations, unblessed by his guidance, seeing their citizens reduced to living in cardboard boxes and eating what the supermarkets threw out at closing time.

A fan of Lenin and, to a lesser extent, Stalin — whose picture he wore on a T-shirt on his wedding day — he talks about leading a social-democratic revolution to remake the Russian state and dislodge the current leadership, which he dismisses as hopelessly corrupt.

The first in a series of exhibitions of these materials -- the classic work as well as some of his lesser-known images, like pictures of cars and movie palaces -- is planned for October, and the collection is being readied for scholars' use.